Larry Payne

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Larry Payne grew up in East Chicago, IN and now resides in Portage, IN with his wife, Susan.

He is a US Navy veteran where he served as a Hospital Corpsman and is retired from Banner Heart Hospital, in Mesa, AZ, where he worked as a Cardiac Monitor Technician.

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Time To Myself: 52 Western Short Stories: Western Adventures From Scott Harris And Fifty One Friends Apr 26, 2019

by Scott Harris, Dana Cauthen, Clint Clay, Douglas R. Cobb, Arlo Flynn, Cullen Gallagher, Scott Gese, Justin Harris, Ric Maddox, Cheryl Pierson

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52 Western writers. 52 Western short stories. All starting with the same twelve words:

I had some time to myself and some things to think about.

These micro-shorts (they’re each 500 words long) scatter off into 52 fascinating, action-filled directions, no two alike. Bourbon bottles and gunfights? Strong men and stronger women. Hangings, horse thieves and fistfights? You got ’em—and more!

You can race through these great stories or savor them, but either way, you’ll love seeing how different and creative 52 writers can be.

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A Dark and Stormy Night (Landscape Horizontal Edition): 52 Western Stories Aug 19, 2018

by Scott Harris

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*Please note that before you purchase this Kindle book it must be read with your reading device (Kindle E-Reader) positioned horizontally. This book is a high quality, graphically enhanced product.*

It was a dark and stormy night...

52 Western authors were given this prompt, and each of them wrote a 500-word micro story. The result is 52 different stories. Some are predictable, traditional Western stories, but no less fun to read because of that. Many others head off into surprising and new directions. And you, the reader, get to enjoy the incredible, diverse tales 52 of today's best Western authors, developed from a single shared idea.

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Trails West: A Collection of Westerns Feb 26, 2022

by Larry Payne

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When Doctor McDermott's Medicine Show rolls into Sweetwater, town Marshal Cooper Smith sees it as only a minor nuisance. After the doctor meets with two strangers behind closed doors, Deputy Otis Fuller grows suspicious of their real intentions. He doesn't know what they're up to, but he's determined to put a stop to it, even if things get deadly.

Charlie Gilson is sentenced to hang for murder. Marshal Cooper Smith and Deputy Otis Fuller are responsible for watching over the prisoner until the hangman arrives to carry out the execution. What should be a simple task suddenly gets dangerous when Gilson's brother shows up and vows to keep his kin's neck from being stretched.

It's not the first time derby-sporting lady outlaw Cody Jarrett has eluded Marshal Lucius Maddox. But this time, she had the nerve to steal the marshal's badge, and Lucius wants it back at all costs. How can he bring the outlaw to justice when no one knows her true identity?

Josiah Black is not your typical Bible toting Reverend. When his church is burned to the ground and his family is devastated, he'll not wait for the sinners responsible to be judged according to Scripture. He'll take matters into his own hands, and God help those who crossed him.

Long ago, bounty hunter Wil Sunday made a solemn vow to his wife. He promised to put his guns away forever and give her the safe, peaceful life she wanted with him. But when four outlaws ride into their farm and destroy everything he loves, Wil is forced to return to his old ways. Only this time, the hunt is not for money. It's personal.

In TRAILS WEST, Larry Payne gives you five action-packed western stories, including his award winning "And Hell Came With Him".

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The Shot Rang Out: 52 Western Short Stories: Scott Harris: Author of the Brock Clemons Western Series and 51 Friends Apr 8, 2018

by Scott Harris

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52 Western writers. 52 Western short stories. All starting with the same 18 words:

The shot rang out. I heard her scream at the same time the bottle crashed to the floor.

These micro-shorts (they’re each 500 words long) scatter off into 52 fascinating, action-filled directions, no two alike. Bourbon bottles and gunfights? How about medicine bottles and horrible news? Or maybe bottles filled with printing ink and a town bully who doesn’t like the local newspaper? You got 'em – and more!

You can race through these great stories or savor them, but either way, you’ll love seeing how different and creative 52 writers can be.

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Bourbon & A Good Cigar: 52 Western Short Stories: Western Adventures From Scott Harris And Fifty One Friends Dec 13, 2018

by Scott Harris

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52 Western writers. 52 Western short stories. All starting with the same sixteen words:

I slowly poured a full glass of bourbon and took my time lighting a good cigar.

These micro-shorts (they’re each 500 words long) scatter off into 52 fascinating, action-filled directions, no two alike. Bourbon bottles and gunfights? Strong men and stronger women? Hangings, horse thieves and fistfights? You got ’em—and more!

You can race through these great stories or savor them, but either way, you’ll love seeing how different and creative 52 writers can be.

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Ride the Savage Land: Book One of the Savage Land series (A Classic Western) Dec 6, 2020

by Larry Payne

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When a Comanche raiding party abducts his wife, Jake Hollister unpins his star and ventures out on a quest to find his beloved Suzanne. Now, six years later, his close friend John Henry Parker's wife, Sarah, has befallen the same fate. Agreeing to ride together until Sarah is found, Jake and John Henry enlist the aid of an ex-buffalo soldier, Zacharia Benson. They follow a trail of death and destruction until a Comanche war party forces them to return home to recover from wounds. Their relentless search resumes when Jake visits an old friend, Charlie Bold Eagle, and persuades the Indian tracker to join their quest. A chance encounter with a Comanchero soon brings them face to face with feared Comanche war chief, White Buffalo.

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Rope and Wire Western Short Stories (Vol 2) (Rope and Wire Short Stories) Nov 4, 2011

by James J. Griffin, Prairie Mary, Dave P. Fisher, Big Jim Williams, Cody Wells, Tom Sheehan, Christopher Scott, John Duncklee, Allen Russell, Larry Payne

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This is volume 2 of an ongoing series of Rope and Wire Western Electronic Pulp Magazines (ePulp). The stories in this volume are by western writers I consider to be some of the best of our day.

A few are award winners. For example, Dave P. Fisher has won the Will Rogers Medallion for western fiction. John Duncklee is a Western Writers of America Spur Award winner and Tom Sheehan has won several awards for fiction writing as well as having received 15 Pushcart nominations.

The stories are all original and unpublished. The authors are all seasoned and professional. They know their craft, they know how to write a story that will hold the attention of their readers, and most of all, they know the old west and what it took to tame it.

Cody Wells writes about a stranger bent on revenge, who in the end, discovers the man he seeks has already suffered more than enough.

Jim Griffin writes about a Texas Ranger who, in the midst of a seemingly no win situation discovers that a horse really can be a man’s best friend.

Larry Payne will lead you through a few moments in the lives of some of the west’s most famous characters.

Simply put, these stories need to be part of your collection.

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The Best of Frontier Tales, Volume 1 (The Frontier Tales Anthologies) Dec 4, 2013

by Dusty Richards, Terry Alexander, Greg Camp, Duke Pennell

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Voted the favorite stories of readers around the world!

In tales from heart-warming to bone-chilling, authors from across the country take us back to the lives and times of the western frontier, where the new culture met the old and battles were fought, love born, and dreams achieved—or lost. This collection of the Tales voted Best by readers each month at www.FrontierTales.com, plus an Editor's Choice, make 13 wonderful stories of the Old West. Meet civil war soldiers, sheriffs, grifters and gunslingers, natives and ne'er-do-wells, and the women and men who pioneered this vast new land. Multiple Spur Award-winner Dusty Richards leads the pack of writers who love the West so much they must bring it alive for others. (Contains some graphic violence—hey, they're Westerns.) Sit a spell and take in some stories that illustrate how this country became the force that it is, and the guts and determination of all who left the known and risked everything they had for the adventure and opportunity to explore a new territory and way of life.

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Guns of the Range Land: Book Two of the Savage Land series (A Classic Western) Mar 25, 2021

by Larry Payne

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Sheriff Jake Hollister has no idea what to expect when Samantha Thorn, new owner of the Bar K, steps off the Bannock stagecoach. The daughter of a Kansas cattle baron, she is used to a lot of ranch and a lot of cattle, and she doesn't have enough of either. When Samantha and her gunfighter brother, Mac Prescott, attempt to push an unwilling Anson Decker into selling his land, Decker pushes back. He brings in his own muscle, notorious gunman Reed McNally, and things quickly heat up.Jake Hollister does all he can to stay out of the dispute and allow the feuding ranchers to come to terms on their own but when his integrity as Sheriff gets brought into question and bodies begin to drop, he's left with no choice but to intervene. Only, it might already be too late and the range war he hopes to prevent may just be too much for Jake to handle. He has to enlist the aid of some old friends to help restore peace and order. Can they succeed, or will the range land and the streets of Bannock be turned red?

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I, TANNER Sep 5, 2021

by LARRY PAYNE

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PI Blake Tanner has been hired by Malcolm MacDonald to find out what happened to the Attorney's missing son. Little does Tanner know, he is about to make some very bad people, very uncomfortable.

The Genesis Project May 8, 2020

by Larry Payne

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Earth was dying and the sleeper ship, Genesis I, was the first phase of The Genesis Project. She carried an advance party to C1789, a planet in what was deemed a habitable zone in the newly discovered Hemera system. Once revived, the crew would shoulder the responsibility of creating a new earth colony for Genesis II and the ships that would follow at yearly intervals.

FREELANCERS Apr 29, 2020

by Larry Payne

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When Quentin Magnus and his Freelancers are hired to retrieve the kidnapped wife of Owen Clayton from the criminal organization Black Fist, it seemed like a simple find and snatch. Then the notorious bounty hunter, Mondo Kai, seized control of Black Fist and hijacked a Galactic warship.
The simple find and snatch quickly evolves when the Commander of the Galactic Navy enlists the aid of the Freelancers for a find at all cost search with the fate of the Galaxy in the balance.

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